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Hughes. Hon. Secretary: William Manshridge, F.E.S. Council: 

 Messrs. W. A. Tyermani' W. Buckley, Prof. R. Newstead, M.Sc, 

 F.R.S., G. F. Mathew, F.L.S., L. West, M.I.M.E., A. W. Boyd, M.C., 

 M.A., Dr. A. R. Jackson, W. J. Lucas, B.Sc, F.E.S., S. Gordon Smith, 

 Alfred Newstead, F.E.S., Rev. F. M. B. Garr, and B. F. Studd, M.A., 

 F.E.S. —Mr. F. N. Pierce, of Warmington, Oundle, Northants, was 

 elected an Honorary Member of the Society.— The President read an 

 address entitled " Notes from Cartmel Fell."— William Mansbridge, 

 Hon. Secretai'y. 



OBITUARY. 

 Thomas Richard Billups. 



Mr. Thomas Richard Billups, whose death was announced in 

 our January issue, was a salesman of garden produce in the Borough 

 Market. Just when he took up the study of entomology we have no 

 precise knowledge, but we find him enrolled as a member of the 

 South London Entomological and Natural History Society in 1877 

 and his name occurs very frequently in the Proceedings of that 

 Society. He was President for the years 1881, 1888 and 1889. In 

 1908 his name is absent from the Roll of Membership. 



Mr. Billups was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 

 1879, but retired therefrom in 1901. Under the editorship of the 

 late Mr. John T. Carrington he joined the Reference Committee of 

 the ' Entomologist' in 1887 and was a contributor to its pages until 

 1895, finally resigning in 1900. 



As an entomologist he was especially interested in the Coleoptera, 

 but in collaboration with the late Mr. Alfred Beaumont, Hymen- 

 optera, Diptera, Orthoptera and Hemiptera received a large share 

 of his attention, the Hymenoptera chiefly perhaps. 



Owing to an enfeebled constitution he was disinclined to follow 

 his entomological pursuits in the early years of the present century, 

 and in 1910 paralysis caused his retirement from active life entirely. 



To all who knew him he will be remembered for his kindly 

 disposition, for he was one of those lovers of insects who had no 

 secrets to hide from his fellow-workers. He was ever ready to 

 impart to others any knowledge he himself had patiently acquired. 



He leaves a widow, who is an invalid, and a daughter. We 

 understand that his collections and books are to be sent to the 

 Auction Rooms at King Street, Covent Garden, for sale. 



We greatly regret to hear of the death of Major R. Bowen 

 Robertson. We hope to give a further notice in the April number. 



